| pocket billiards pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) See pool2. |
pocket billiards
n (functioning as singular) Billiards
1. (Group Games / Billiards & Snooker) another name for pool2 [5]
2. (Group Games / Billiards & Snooker) any game played on a table in which the object is to pocket the balls, esp snooker and pool
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| Noun | 1. |  pocket billiards - any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pocketstable game - a game that is played on a table break - the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool carom, cannon - a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other masse, masse shot - a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball miscue - a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball snooker - a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball |
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